... Still Prevalent in Iraq and Afghanistan
Majority of the public not optimistic that troops will be coming home soon
ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- By a 66 to 32 percent majority the American public believes that torture of prisoners by Americans has taken place in Iraq and Afghanistan. Furthermore, 61 percent of those who believe that torture has taken place (or 41 percent of all U.S. adults) also believe that it is still happening in spite of the public disclosures of events that took place in Abu Ghraib prison.
In addition, while six in 10 (60%) adults favor bringing most U.S. troops home in the next year, similar numbers (58%) do not expect that this will happen within two years, and a majority of people (55% ) are not confident that Iraq will be successful in developing a stable government.
These are some of the results of a Harris Poll of 1,010 U.S. adults
surveyed by telephone by Harris Interactive(R) between April 5 and 10, 2005. <more>
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